ECCAS approves the keeping of the vote and calls at the rebels to withdraw

The heads of state of Central Africa met on Saturday, December 26, at a video conference to discuss the Central African Republic, just before the presidential election, as they urged voters to “go massively to the polls”. In its final press release, the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), which met on the initiative of Congo-Brazzaville, also condemned “with the greatest energy” the deaths of three Burundian soldiers from the UN Mission in the Central African Republic (Minusca) on Thursday in Deco .

There is unequivocal support for the Central African presidential electiondespite the circumstances expressed by the Presidents of CEEACA “permanent mediator” was nevertheless appointed to follow the crisis, and a call was launched for “the end of the struggle” and “the withdrawal of the rebels from all front lines”. The day after the election, the heads of state also want to organize an “inclusive political dialogue”, but without specifying a more precise goal.

They call for justice for three Burundian soldiers from Minusca killed in the fighting in Dékia and calls on “those Member States that have the capacity to express their solidarity with the Central African Republic, including by sending armed troops” to “help it regain the integrity of its territory”.

Present at this conference: first the Angolan President of the ECCAS Commission, Gilberto da Piedade Verissimo, and the outgoing Central African President, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, of course, who opened the debate. At his side were the Presidents of Congo-Brazzaville, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, DRC, Félix Tshisekedi, Burundi, Évariste Ndayishimiye and Equatorial Guinea, TeodoroObiang Nguema Mbasogo. Five Heads of State personally plus representatives of the other six members of ECCAS: Angola, Cameroon, Rwanda, Chad, Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe.

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